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tofagerl

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Registered: 2012-02-15

Posts: 1

Error from yaourt

After running yaourt -Syua I get this error, which is just fantastic, cause this is the kind of stuff I just love spending two hours fixing when I could have been working.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.6
:: pacman-color: requires pacman<3.6

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,977

Re: Error from yaourt

Just do a "sudo pacman -Syu" that'll update everything but your AUR packages.  Then for AUR use Cower for updating those.

Basically, yaourt makes AUR look like a repository, and that's the wrong way to go about it.  It has a significant chance to break things.

See this thread, here, where I was pointed to Cower.

Last edited by headkase (2012-02-15 14:31:13)

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Error from yaourt

15:58:22     phrik ╡ pacman -R yaourt package-query; pacman -Syu; rebuild yaourt and package-query. When you use crap from
                   ╡ aur you have to keep it up to date yourself, and rebuild when needed.

The same goes for pacman-color.

You should also read and follow this post.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Error from yaourt

After running yaourt -Syua I get this error, which is just fantastic, cause this is the kind of stuff I just love spending two hours fixing when I could have been working.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.6
:: pacman-color: requires pacman<3.6

Why would you spend so much time on something so trivial?